Friday, July 13, 2012

Strawberry and Pandan Chiffon Cake

I’ve been craving for chiffon cake for some time now and finally made one the other day. I wanted to try out the strawberry powder I purchased online on this cake. Since I like pandan flavor too so I combined them together. I think the strawberry powder flavor overpower the pandan flavor a little bit. Nevertheless, it turns out pretty good. I like the look of this cake. It makes me happy ;)

1. Pre-heat the oven to 350 degree F. Get ready a 9” tube pan. Do not grease the pan. Sieve flour, baking powder and salt together. Set it aside
2. In a mixing bowl, mix egg yolks and sugar until light and creamy. Add in vegetable oil and milk. Mix well. Fold in the flour mixture and mix well. Divide this mixture into 2. One portion mix in the strawberry powder and a few drop of pink coloring. The other portions mix in the pandan paste. Mix well.
3. Whisk ingredients A in an electric mixer until light and stiff. Divide the egg white mixture equally into 2. Fold one portion gently into the strawberry batter and the other half into the pandan batter.
4. Pour half of the strawberry batter into the tube pan, spread it evenly, and pour half of the pandan batter on top of the strawberry batter, follows by strawberry batter, and then the pandan batter.
5. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until cake is well browned and skewer comes out clean when tested. Remove cake from oven, invert the baking pan immediately. Leave it to cool completely.
6. To remove the cake, run a long sharp knife to the side and bottom of the baking pan. Cut and serve.

Note: If you don’t have strawberry powder just adds 1/2 tsp of strawberry essence.

Your chiffon is so colorful and beautiful! I love the colour! :D I try making chiffon 10 times, failed! I reckon should be the process of beating egg white, can't get it right. Anyway, thanks for your recipe...brave enough, would try someday.

Linda, thank you. How are you doing. Haven't see you here for a long time. Try making it again as it will get better. Never mind when I go to Australia I will visit you and I will show you how to make it :)

Yen, I used pure strawberry powder. You can get it from the health food stores or online. A lot of people add it into their protein shake.

Bee bee, How are you? I just visited the Great Mall at Milpitas yesterday. Your house is near there?

I tried your pandan and strawberry chiffon and it was very good. It was my first attempt baking a chiffon. Next I baked the mandarin orange chiffon and it was just as good. I went on to bake a matcha green tea chiffon using the strawberry pandan recipe but omitted the two flavourings and added the green tea powder. Again just as yummy. Thanks for sharing the recipes .

hi! nice cake you have there. however i don;t really like strawberry flavour cake. thinking of changing the recipe to use only pandan. may i know the 9" tube pan, is it 23cm or 22cm pan? besides, may i know the cup that you are using, is equivalent to how many gram or ml? thx!

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